A synopsis of the story

Hoodwinked Too! opens with the Happy Ever
After (HEA) agents the Big Bad Wolf (voice of Patrick Warburton), Granny
Puckett (Glen Close) and Twitchy (Cory Edwards) attempting to rescue two
children, Hansel (Bill Hader) and Gretel (Amy Poehler), who are being held
prisoner by a wicked witch (Joan Cusack). Unfortunately the rescue doesn’t go
as planned and the witch escapes with not only Hansel and Gretel, but Granny as
well.

Meanwhile, Red Riding Hood (Hayden Panettiere) is off on special assignment
training with the Sisterhood of the Kung Fu Bakers, and is about to undertake
her final trial when a secret recipe is stolen.

Red and the Wolf are now partnered to find
Hansel and Gretel, rescue Granny and catch the recipe thief. Of course, all
does not go smoothly at first, and Hansel and Gretel may not be the innocent
victims they at first seem.

Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.

Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.

Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.

Hoodwinked Too! contains animated violence
and accidental harm which are largely portrayed in a comical manner with real
life consequences not depicted and characters rarely injured. Children may
imitate some of the violence depicted. Examples include:

Hansel and Gretel are tied up and in a
large stock pot. Granny tells the Big Bad Wolf that the children are going to
become “baked goods” and we hear a comment about children tasting like chicken.

When Granny, the Big Bad Wolf and Twitchy
attempt to rescue Hansel and Gretel from a gingerbread house, the wicked witch
on a rocket powered broom crashes through the window with Hansel and Gretel
tied up in cages next to her. Granny, the Wolf and Twitchy chase the witch on a
speeding motor bike. Granny leaps from the motorbike and grabs the broom but
the witch handcuffs her to the broom. The wolf also attempts to jump from the
motorbike and grab the broomstick, but misses, lands on a windmill and is propelled
through the air.

While training with the Sisterhood, Red
fights a large four-armed ogre which tries to hit her with a giant hammer. Red
kicks the ogre in the face several times and then knocks him to the
ground.

A woman is hit in the face with a rolling
pin. She falls unconscious on the ground and another woman steps over her.

Granny is tied to a chair and the wicked
witch threatens that she will cook the two children if Granny refuses to make
the secret recipe.

A giant black spider drops down and picks
up a little girl eating from a bowl and then disappears up into the air.

In a parody of a scene from “Silence of the
Lambs”, Red, Wolf and Twitchy stand in front of a prison cell with a rabbit
strapped to an upright table. Red grabs the rabbit’s ear through a hole in the
glass partition and pulls it through, causing the rabbit’s face to squash up
against the glass.

We hear the order “send in the pigs” and a
number of thuggish looking pigs storm the HEA headquarters. They attack a frog which
fights back, knocking down several of the pigs.

During a fight between three thuggish pigs,
the Wolf and Twitchy, the pigs kick the wolf in the groin and pull his arm (we
hear the sound of bones cracking). Twitchy attacks the pigs with a sledge
hammer, hitting them in the head, until there is a pile of unconscious pigs on
the ground.

A giant spider crawls towards Granny and
Red, who are tied to chairs. The spider is about to attack when the woodsman
and his band blow open the door and attack the spider, hitting and kicking it until
they force it out of the room.

While giant sized, Hansel and Gretel walk
through a city smashing building and overturning cars as they go. They throw
the broken buildings onto the people below. Hansel picks up a large piece of
rubble and throws it at Red who dodges it but falls off the building. Hansel
and Gretel stand over Red and are about to drop a car on top of her when she is
rescued.

Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.

Younger children in this age group may also be
scared by some of the above-mentioned scenes

In a nutshell

Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil is an animated
comedy based on fairytale characters, targeted at primary school aged children
and older. It contains scenes that may scare children under seven and violence
and language that may be imitated by younger children. It is not as clever and
enjoyable for adults as the first Hoodwinked film.

The main messages from this movie are:

not to let your pride get in the way of
helping others.

to be open to help and suggestions.

that working together as a team will
achieve much more than working as individuals.

Values in this movie that parents may wish
to reinforce with their children include:

cooperation: It was only by working
together as a team that Red and her friends were able to overpower the evil
villains of the film.

self reflection: both the Wolf and Red were
able to reflect on their shortcomings and

Parents may wish to discuss with younger
children the make-believe nature of the animated violence depicted in the film
and discuss the real life consequences that would result from this type of
violence.